Hong Kong Belt-Road 2017 - City-to-City Cultural Exchange Conference is a network conference to promote arts and cultural exchanges and collaborations among the Belt and Road cities.

The Belt and Road cities are a colourful reserve of history. Meanwhile, global modernisation and popular culture have brought renewal and transformation to these cities. In 2017, ten maestri and young artists of traditional and contemporary art forms from the Belt and Road cities will convene in Hong Kong to carry out exchanges through their creative works, including theatre and dance, staged with the setup of One Table Two Chairs concept adapted from Xiqu (traditional Chinese theater/opera). These artists will conduct demonstrations and solo performances in a theatre cladded with mirrors on four sides creating infinite reflections and experimentations between the traditional and the contemporary.

Danny Yung’s theater work The Trial in 1994 attempted to turn the arena stage layout of the Studio Theatre of Hong Kong Cultural Centre into a four-wall mirror-clad performing space with infinite reflections on all sides. 

Twenty-three years later, in 2017, the latest GiantMirror technology perfected the idea with seamless mirror walls in 13×21m set up in the same venue that served as a platform for Yung’s One Table Two Chairs cultural exchange and performance project, that made available for performing artists from Asia and Europe to interact, share, create and perform. In 2018, Yung developed his stage design and experimentation into a 2+2 setup with two mirrored walls and two projection walls in the same venue where he created two theater pieces, Heavenly Palace of Monkey Business and The Interrupted Dream: Chinois Dream at Château de Versailles.

The twelve Belt and Road maestri in both traditional and contemporary performing arts and emerging artists will bring Hong Kong four distinctive performance programmes, creating solo/duet and workshop-led short pieces.

Ticket Price: $200
Full-time students: $100
Free seating

Running time approximately 100 minutes with no intermission
No latecomers will be admitted until a suitable break in the performance.